#starclanoc

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Nicknames: Maam, Mother, Mom, Little Sister

Gender: she-cat

Sexuality: heterosexual

Family: Marblegaze (mother), Redjay (father), Grebewing (sister), Greydusk, Swanmist, Lightstream, Brokenwhistle (brothers), Tadpolekit, Songkit (neices), Bella-May (grandmother), Houndnose (grandfather), Buck (mate), Myrtlewing (son)

Other Relations: unnamed mentor, two unnamed apprentices

Clan: Shadowclan

Rank: warrior, elder

Current Residence: Starclan

Cause of Death: stroke

Background:

She was born after her father died, after everyone knew what he had done. When she was still young, her older siblings made a pact to never have kits, to never pass along the monster she never met's blood.

She understood, or maybe that is what she told herself because she never thought of a life that wasn't beneath the shadow of a killer, or because she was still so young when the pact was made, she had no idea just how much it would affect her, and how much she would find herself needing to get away from the constant need to prove her worth.

That is why she found Buck so interesting. She left food for the skinny, bony loner once every day until she was caught. Then they continued to meet up, face-to-face this time, and her feelings of sympathy for the starving cat gave way into genuine love. Maybe the love was truly all for him, maybe it was just for the tom that thought she was amazing, with no clue of who her father was or the restrictions thrust on her by her siblings.

She hadn't meant to get pregnant, and after a couple days of shock, she became happy. But when she went to tell Buck, he was gone.

She never believed he had left deliberately, instead thinking that something bad must have happened.

Her siblings, all but Grebewing and Greydusk, were furious with her, and when her little son was born, it was only the two that bothered meeting him at all. Greydusk, her littermate, was especially helpful, treating his nephew as though he were his son, playing with him, guiding him better than any father could.

She was proud when Myrtlepaw chose to follow in the path of a medicine cat, privately sticking her tongue out at her older siblings for giving up on him before he was even born. She comforted him when he grieved a close friend or lost patient, and she was happy to see him become close with Aldereyes, and then Grousemane and Hootpetal.

And when Fernpaw's mentor returned to camp, her mangled body in his jaws, and announced that it had been Myrtlewing that had killed her, presumably along with the rest of their missing Clanmates and who knows who else, something inside of her broke.

Additional Information:

ref by Turukhan